Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Discolored from coagulation of blood below the surface of the skin.
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- adjective Badly
bruised , withdiscolourations beneath theskin due tocoagulation ofblood
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Examples
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He lifted my right arm, and I saw the black-and-blue marks.
Family Storms 2011
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She moaned at the sight of the fading black-and-blue marks and mumbled, Poor child.
Family Storms 2011
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Sometimes the women were there, and so was a kind of distress you didn't understand and didn't particularly want but couldn't resist -- like a black-and-blue mark you can't help pressing, I used to think.
Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012
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“No,” she says, touching my black-and-blue forehead.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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“You have a black-and-blue mark on the right side of your forehead.”
Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011
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Sometimes the women were there, and so was a kind of distress you didn't understand and didn't particularly want but couldn't resist -- like a black-and-blue mark you can't help pressing, I used to think.
Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012
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She moaned at the sight of the fading black-and-blue marks and mumbled, Poor child.
Family Storms 2011
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He lifted my right arm, and I saw the black-and-blue marks.
Family Storms 2011
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Sometimes the women were there, and so was a kind of distress you didn't understand and didn't particularly want but couldn't resist -- like a black-and-blue mark you can't help pressing, I used to think.
Jesse Kornbluth: Leonard Cohen, At 77, Calls His New CD Old Ideas. It's Anything But Jesse Kornbluth 2012
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The welts and black-and-blue marks on my upper thighs were still quite vivid, especially where Uncle Reuben had pinched me.
Raven V.C Andrews 2011
cosmican commented on the word black-and-blue
Meaning: livid
Citation: I was black and blue after a long day's work
November 20, 2007